PONARS Eurasia Policy Workshop
Russia in 2019: What Lies Ahead?
Friday, February 1, 2019 | Panel Videos/YouTube
AGENDA
9:00 am Opening Remarks
Location: Lindner Commons, Room 602, GW Elliott School (1957 E St. NW)
9:15-10:45 am Panel 1: Putin’s Fourth Term
Chair: David Szakonyi, George Washington University
Brian Taylor, Syracuse University
Putin’s Fourth Term: Breakthrough or Stagnation?
Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
Putin-the-President to Putin-the-Leader in Another Capacity
Kirill Rogov, Liberal Mission Foundation (Moscow)
What Have We Learned from Putin’s First Year of His Fourth Term?
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University
Beyond Putin: Russia’s Generations Y and Z
Discussant: Maria Lipman, Co-editor of Point & Counterpoint
10:45-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15-1:00 pm Panel 2: Society Beyond the Kremlin
Chair: Henry Hale, George Washington University
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King’s College London
Ostrov 90kh: Political Opposition and the Struggle Over the 1990s
Andrey Makarychev, University of Tartu
Opposition at a Distance: Liberal, Anti-Putin, or/and Pro-Western
Kelly McMann, Case Western Reserve University
United Russia and the Likelihood of Political Liberalization: A Comparison and Contrast with Mexico’s PRI
Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder
Social Policy in Putin’s (Last?) Term
Judyth Twigg, Virginia Commonwealth University
HIV/AIDS in Russia
Discussant: Wayne Merry, American Foreign Policy Council
1:00-2:00 pm Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm Panel 3: Russia’s Economy and Its Great-Power Status
Chair: Kelly McMann, Case Western Reserve University
David Szakonyi, George Washington University
Export-Led Instability: Measuring the Collateral Damage of International Sanctions on Russia
Nigel Gould-Davies, Mahidol University International College (Thailand)
Russian Elites and Western Sanctions
Irina Busygina, Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
The EAEU After Crimea: Threats of Exit, More Voice, and Less Loyalty
Discussant: Anders Aslund, Atlantic Council
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 pm Panel 4: Russia’s Foreign Policy and Its Impacts
Chair: Irina Busygina, Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
Ivan Kurilla, European University at St. Petersburg
Toward Possibilities of a New Reset: Russia and the United States in the Near Future
Dmitry Gorenburg, CNA Corporation; Harvard University
Russia’s Strategy in Southeast Asia
Robert Orttung, George Washington University
U.S., Russian, and Chinese Competition in the Arctic
Jesse Driscoll, University of California, San Diego
Ukrainian Civil War: Would Accepting This Terminology Help Resolve the Conflict?
Discussant: Christopher Walker, National Endowment for Democracy
Agenda updated: January 16